Posted on 08/11/2022 2:01:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
No longer do schools and other institutions need to screen apparently healthy students and employees as a matter of course. The CDC is putting less emphasis on social distancing. Its quarantine rule for unvaccinated people is gone. The agency’s focus now is on highly vulnerable populations, and how to protect them — not on the vast majority of people who at this point have some immunity against the virus and are unlikely to become severely ill.
Unvaccinated people who have had close contact with someone who is infected no longer are advised to go through a five-day period of quarantine if they have not tested positive for the virus or shown symptoms.
As part of the changes, the agency is also dropping its recommendation that people be screened or tested for covid in most settings. That change is likely to affect policies in workplaces, schools and day-care centers.
The CDC is not a regulatory body. Its guidelines do not have the force of law. But many government jurisdictions, businesses, schools and millions of people have tried to adhere to the agency’s guidelines during the pandemic.
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The only places that still mandate a mask are my Doctor’s office and my Dentist’s office.
For some reason CDC guidelines still require masks in medical settings. Is that changing?
My initial reaction — something is afoot. They won’t give up this power trip unless there’s some other motive. Is this an election year?
I see they still insist on masking.
Maybe hoping for an “outbreak” just in time for the mid-terms?
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7133e1.htm
Per the above, no guidance for heakthcare settings that I could find.
Love the way the CDC is now recommending N95s and equating KN95s with N95s.
These aren’t masks.
They’re muzzles.
Are the shots and boosters still being pushed? I took a hiatus from all things Covid related.
In fact, I took my unvaxed self to an indoor concert with over 90,000 people in attendance. I made it through with no ill effects.
Sort of.
If you read the CDC’s actual statement, its chock full of weasel wordage.
Democrats polling terribly and more of The People aware they've been played for fools.
The government is also distancing itself from its illegal diktats that private employers followed and will be sued for.
“CDC loosens coronavirus guidance, signaling strategic shift”
No, it signals a mid term election.
wy69
Scamdemic is the democratic party’s albatross and a national disgrace for what this sham and it’s enablers did to this country from the STEAL on down
Maybe Republicans should go ahead a mask up and distance themselves? Just kidding.
About two and a half years late. The damage so far can’t be undone, and a lot can’t be repaired.
It’s not surprising to me that dental/medical offices continue to hang onto the fiction — the delusion — of masking. The medical profession has destroyed their credibility to provide medical advice ... and they continue to this day to do just that.
Meanwhile I went to a convention with 30,000 and caught the Chinese Genetically Engineered Death Flu. I sat at home for a couple of days and watched TV instead of going into work. Because of a false negative early I didn’t quarantine until the very end after my symptoms were gone. I took a second test just to prove to my company that it wasn’t COVID - but it had been so I got an extra day off.
Are those that have been fired by their previous edicts going to be rehired with back pay? I see many lawsuits in the future.
We just did a car trip through southeastern British Columbia. They are still reeling from their extreme measures. All sorts of mom & pop places are out of business. Old businesses are boarded up and overgrown with weeds.
One thing the pandemic did not kill off is bums. The city of Nelson, BC is full of them. They are like cockroaches and would survive a nuclear holocaust.
It’ll be a long time before I go to Canada for any reason. One of my brothers was vacationing there a few months ago when his wife tested positive for the coof. They ended up renting a car to get back across the border because they couldn’t fly home.
That’s just one aspect. I doubt, by the way, that very many such lawsuits will be successful.
So those Mighty Minds finally figured out what was obvious to everyone else from the beginning. Bless their hearts.
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